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<blockquote data-quote="GraceK" data-source="post: 313843" data-attributes="member: 47233"><p>Maybe we should all get together and devise a Carboholics Anonymous 12 Step Programme ... and we should all announce ourselves by saying ... </p><p></p><p>"Hello Everyone, my name is ... and I'm a Carboholic."</p><p></p><p>I think by virtue of being human and having a brain, we can become addicted to ANYTHING at all. Life itself is an addiction in a way. Anything habit, good or bad, that we find hard to break, is an addiction. We can be addicted to heroin or addicted to exercise. We can be addicted to alcohol or addicted to carbs. The substance or activity doesn't really matter, it's how it makes us feel that we're really addicted to. Some people are even addicted to feeling yukky, because they can't envisage feeling any other way, their way of eating brings the same yukky results yet still they keep eating that way out of habit.</p><p></p><p>I didn't realise how addicted I was to carbs. I knew that once I had been addicted to sweets and cigarettes and I had one hell of a job getting myself off both those nasties. But I didn't consider myself addicted to bread or cakes or pastries, until my stomach started yelling at me to STOP! </p><p></p><p>But once I DECIDED to stop eating sweets by the bagful and stop smoking, I mean REALLY DECIDED, I was able to stop and I've never wanted either of those things again. I have the occasional sweet but don't enjoy them and realised I really never did. Cigarettes, since the day I smoked my last one 18 May 2002, I can honestly say I've just never even noticed them again. I never seem to meet any smokers, and the thought of me with a cigarette in my mouth now seems like it was all happening to another person. We can never TRY to give up or stop doing anything, because trying doesn't cut it. We have to DECIDE because it all happens in the mind first. The body just follows the leader. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GraceK, post: 313843, member: 47233"] Maybe we should all get together and devise a Carboholics Anonymous 12 Step Programme ... and we should all announce ourselves by saying ... "Hello Everyone, my name is ... and I'm a Carboholic." I think by virtue of being human and having a brain, we can become addicted to ANYTHING at all. Life itself is an addiction in a way. Anything habit, good or bad, that we find hard to break, is an addiction. We can be addicted to heroin or addicted to exercise. We can be addicted to alcohol or addicted to carbs. The substance or activity doesn't really matter, it's how it makes us feel that we're really addicted to. Some people are even addicted to feeling yukky, because they can't envisage feeling any other way, their way of eating brings the same yukky results yet still they keep eating that way out of habit. I didn't realise how addicted I was to carbs. I knew that once I had been addicted to sweets and cigarettes and I had one hell of a job getting myself off both those nasties. But I didn't consider myself addicted to bread or cakes or pastries, until my stomach started yelling at me to STOP! But once I DECIDED to stop eating sweets by the bagful and stop smoking, I mean REALLY DECIDED, I was able to stop and I've never wanted either of those things again. I have the occasional sweet but don't enjoy them and realised I really never did. Cigarettes, since the day I smoked my last one 18 May 2002, I can honestly say I've just never even noticed them again. I never seem to meet any smokers, and the thought of me with a cigarette in my mouth now seems like it was all happening to another person. We can never TRY to give up or stop doing anything, because trying doesn't cut it. We have to DECIDE because it all happens in the mind first. The body just follows the leader. :) [/QUOTE]
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